The kinetic analog of Boltzmann’s principle

DOI10.1063/1.525175zbMath0475.76073OpenAlexW2004798027MaRDI QIDQ3930897

B. H. Lavenda, Enrico Santamato

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525175

zbMATH Keywords

non-Gaussian fluctuationsgradient of the joint entropykinetic analog of Boltzmann's principlerates of growth (decay) of fluctuationstransition density of nonequilibrium diffusion processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Kinetic theory of gases in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B40) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35)

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• Statistical theory of irreversible processes. I. Integral over fluctation path formulation
• A path space picture for Feynman-Kac averages
• The Onsager-Machlup function as Lagrangian for the most probable path of a diffusion process
• The role of the Onsager–Machlup Lagrangian in the theory of stationary diffusion process
• Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. I.
• Fluctuations and Irreversible Process. II. Systems with Kinetic Energy

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